A Suffolk composting site is to use rubbish to make electricity for the local area.
Greenview Environmental, outside Bury St Edmunds in the county, recycles 26,000 tonnes of garden and kitchen waste from the surrounding area annually.
Now it intends to turn the compost into electricity, through a system which pulverises the waste, heats it, and eventually gets fed through an anaerobic digester to generate electricity.
A spokeswoman for St Edmundbury Borough Council, in which the plant is based, said: "All of the material collected from the brown bins in St Edmundsbury Borough Council is composted by Greenview.
"Last year approximately 12,600 tonnes was sent for composting, although this varies slightly year on year due to the climatic variations.
"We have been working in partnership for a number of years and provide a consistent and clean feedstock for the composting process that helps them to produce high quality compost."
The site is expected to be able to generate up to three megawatts of power, roughly the same amount as an onshore wind turbine, which will be sold back to the National Grid.
